AWP 2013 Dance Card

Dear Friends,I have just returned from the supremely awesome Prairie Gate Literary Festival in Minnesota, and it's already time to begin planning for AWP Boston next week. I'll be doing three offsite readings, and spending every morning at work in the bookfair. Please stop by and say hello! Exhibit Hall EscapadesI'll be selling copies of Barn Owl Review issue 6 (and handing out contributor copies), and peddling the many fine titles of the Akron Series in Poetry/Poetics (including the newest by Seth Abramson, Thievery, and The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World by Robert Archambeau) every day from 8:30-1:30 at table H1. Please note that our assignment basically makes us TABLE HI. So come say hi. We will be giving away the snazzy postcard booklets pictured above for Poem in your Pocket day, on behalf of the University of Akron Press. Oh, and we will have some attractive bundle discounts for poetry and poetics books. The Traveling Insurgency

I am going to load my suitcase (and Eric's) with copies of O Holy Insurgency, my brand new poetry collection. I will also have change, if you'd like to get a copy of the book at table HI (see above), at any of the events listed below, in the elevator, in the hotel bar, the bookfair restroom, on the street, etc. In honor of my shite mathematical/change making skills, and the general spirit of AWP joy, I'll be selling OHI for the reduced price of $10.Readings Galore!Many, many thanks to the journals/publishers below for inviting me to read during this AWP. I'll be reading poems from OHI, as well as new work, including a Risk Management Memo or two (or five).Thursday, March 7, 2013Happy Hour Reading for Steel Toe Books2-4 pmDillon's, Boston

Thanks so much to the folks who have already purchased a signed copy of OHI through Paypal (link here). All proceeds from my Paypal sales go to supporting the artists of Etsy (i.e. this is the one time I don't turn royalties into groceries).If you have made it this far in said lengthy tome, thank you. Rumor has it I'll be on Verse Daily this week. Yay!Warmest wishes,Mary Bee

I live in glorious Akron, Ohio, where I write poems, edit the Akron Series in Poetry, and teach literature and creative writing. I am the author of five full-length collections of poems, including A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, Small Enterprise, and the collaborative poetry collection The Czar, with Jay Robinson (all from Black Lawrence Press). I've received an NEA fellowship in poetry, and several individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2019 my first collection of prose poems, Partial Genius, is due to drop from BLP.
In my spare time, I like to photograph garbage.